HSBC RESIDENCE AT SUMMIT THOMAS V.

Story of an Englishman and a Chinaman

Once upon a time an Englishman set across the Indian ocean and came to the island of Borneo. At the same time was a Chinaman set sale across China Ocean and landed at the same port of Jesselton.

They both need a roof over the heads and set out to search for a location. Look out from the port of Jesselton you will see the hill overlooking the South China Sea with lash green and screnity. That is Signal Hill. So both toward that hill and both locate an ideal spot of their choice and build their home where new family begin.

The Englishman chose the summit with panoramic view. Look toward the East is the distant view of the majestic of Mount Kinabalu. Look toward the West is the vast sea of South China.

A house made of a sawn timber frame with machins planks.

As for the Chinaman? Below the summit is a valley where he went in search. With great joy he found a spring when fresh sweet cool water gush out from within the rocks.

A first home made from trees surrounding. Using the small tree trunk as poles and frames.

Both of them live in wooden houses without sufficient care would not be standing too long. Before too long, weather and forest reclaim them. The destiny is that no one would restore them and let lost forever.

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It is sad to see our pass is being abandoned for too weak to face the truth. The truth of being a descendent of the poor, the sick, the ignorant and illiterate.